The reproduction of life death : Derrida's La vie la mort /
Based on archival translations of Derrida's as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance's Derrida and life death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida's engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Based on archival translations of Derrida's as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance's Derrida and life death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida's engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 191 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823283903 0823283909 9780823283910 0823283917 |